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Withholding Treatment: Is It Ethical? [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Gerontological Nursing, 1986
Nurses often perceive themselves as being powerless, and may believe the only ethical decisions they make are whether or not to follow orders.
Marisue Cody, Cody, Marisue
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Withholding treatment [PDF]

open access: yesPlastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 1985
J. R. Ball, George S. Pap
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On withholding treatment. [PDF]

open access: yesCanadian Medical Association journal, 1974
Guttman, Frank M.
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Withholding or Withdrawing Treatment

Archives of Internal Medicine, 1987
To the Editor. —I strongly disagree with the position of the American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs that, under certain very limited circumstances, "it is not unethical to discontinue all means of life-prolonging medical treatment" and that "life-prolonging medical treatment includes medication and artificially or ...
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Withholding or Withdrawing Treatment

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1986
To the Editor.— Recently, the American Medical Association (AMA) Council of Ethical and Judicial Affairs adopted a stand based on ethical considerations that allows the withholding of nutrition and fluids from patients under special clinical circumstances.
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Decisions to Withhold or Terminate Treatment

Neurologic Clinics, 1989
Decisions to withhold or terminate treatment are common clinical dilemmas in patients dying from diseases of the nervous system. Decision making for such patients must be based upon ethical principles. Under the doctrine of valid consent and refusal, competent patients have the right to refuse life-sustaining therapies.
W A, Nelson, J L, Bernat
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Providing, Withholding, and Withdrawing Treatment

Journal of the American College of Radiology, 2012
o t w q s s h p p w c m i One of the most challenging ethical issues in medicine concerns providing, withholding, and withdrawing care. It raises many fundamental questions concerning the goals and methods of medicine. For example, if the prolongation of life is not always patients’ and physicians’ overriding objective, under what circumstances might ...
Richard B, Gunderman, Sara B, Olack
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